Teruto Soejima

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Teruto Soejima ( Japanese 副 島 輝 人 , Soejima Teruto ; * January 14, 1931 ; † July 12, 2014 ) was a Japanese jazz author and critic, music producer and organizer.

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Soejima was active as a promoter of free jazz in Japan from the late 1960s ; In 1969 he founded the New Jazz Hall venue in Tokyo with Masayuki Takayanagi , Masahiko Togashi and Masahiko Satoh . He wrote for various Japanese newspapers and magazines such as Asahi Shimbun , Mainichi Shimbun , Komei , Jazz Hihyo and Gendaishitecho magazines . He published the books Gendai Jazz no Chōryū ("Currents in Modern Jazz", 1994), Nihon Free Jazz-shi ("History of Japanese Free Jazz"; 2002) and The Story of Free Jazz Around the World (2013). He also produced a. a. Recordings by Hozan Yamamoto , Kang Tae Hwan and Peter Kowald ( Duos Japan , FMP 1991, including Tadao Sawai , Toshinori Kondō and Akira Sakata ).

In 1974 and 1976 in Japan he organized the 14-day free jazz festival Inspiration and Power . In cooperation with the German Moers festival , he arranged over 130 appearances by Japanese free jazz musicians between 1977 and 2006. In Japan he promoted tours a. a. by Peter Kowald, David Moss , Christian Marclay , the Seoul Free Music Trio , the Jazz Group Arkhangelsk and the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (1996). He has also taught at Toho College and at universities and cultural centers in Vienna, Paris, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Soejima Teruto argued that free jazz could not be seen as the last sub-genre of jazz in a historical line and that 'genuine jazz' had no goal. "It is music that is constantly changing".

Publications (selection)

  • Gendai Jazz no Chōryū ( 現代 ジ ャ ズ の 潮流 ). Maruzen, Tokyo 1994, ISBN 4-621-06004-X .
  • Nihon Free Jazz-shi / The History of Japanese Free Jazz ( 日本 フ リ ー ジ ャ ズ 史 - The History of Japanese Free Jazz). Seidosha, Tokyo 2002, ISBN 4-7917-5956-7 .
  • Sekai Free Jazz-ki / The Story of Free Jazz around the World ( 世界 フ リ ー ジ ャ ズ 記 - The Story of Free Jazz around the World). Seidosha, Tokyo 2013, ISBN 978-4-7917-6709-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary (English)
  2. ^ David Novak: Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation 2013, p. 246
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Soejima surname, Teruto the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Soejima, Teruto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 副 島 輝 人 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz writer, music critic, music promoter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1931
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2014